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Work Is Broken. Gen Z Can Help Fix It | Amanda Schneider | TED

Would you rather stay in your current job until you retire, or change jobs every year? Researcher Amanda Schneider says Gen Z’s answer to this question says a lot about the evolving workplace. Sharing data-driven insights on the young workforce, she debunks common misconceptions about Gen Z employees and explains why their preferences are key…

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Would you rather stay in your current job until you retire, or change jobs every year? Researcher Amanda Schneider says Gen Z’s answer to this question says a lot about the evolving workplace. Sharing data-driven insights on the young workforce, she debunks common misconceptions about Gen Z employees and explains why their preferences are key to unlocking a more flexible, effective workplace for everyone. (Recorded at TEDxFargo on July 25, 2024)

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  1. @Phoenix-Wino

    April 2, 2025 at 8:23 am

    Companies are passionate about you until the next reorg. Don’t be romantic about your employer. It’s not mutual.

    • @Ninja9JKD

      April 2, 2025 at 10:00 am

      Wage Slavery, 1800s term for the way most people work today.

    • @dangerdave616

      April 2, 2025 at 11:43 am

      Not always.

  2. @YovngLord

    April 2, 2025 at 8:28 am

    Gen z has no work ethic

  3. @funkymunky

    April 2, 2025 at 8:40 am

    By the time this generation thinks they’ve magically fixed it, the new generation will show everyone just how broken the system remains. You can’t fix the master’s home with the master’s tools. Find a way or fade away.

  4. @user_user1337

    April 2, 2025 at 8:45 am

    they don’t want to work at all.

  5. @Anpeo

    April 2, 2025 at 8:46 am

    Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass their exams. You better get healthy.

  6. @lancelotkhan4460

    April 2, 2025 at 9:39 am

    I would argue even “hybrid” is dumb AF for office knowledge workers.

  7. @ThisNameIsBanned

    April 2, 2025 at 9:40 am

    GEN Z doesnt have kids, so they dont have any of the problems.

    But they ARE the problem because of it.

    If you are living with your family, grandparents and everyone involved, you have an easy time to give the children to them. If you want to do everything on your own, especially as a single mom, you quickly find out, thats not healthy at all, you will burn out, if it works at all.

  8. @avinks7137

    April 2, 2025 at 9:49 am

    Whats the point, when government tax me 50%.😢

  9. @Ninja9JKD

    April 2, 2025 at 9:54 am

    Remove the wager slavery tax called “income tax”, and give us honest money instead of the fiat fake money we have. Until this happens everyone is getting f’ed. If a person works for a year, the first 4 months they work for free, all their money going to a super corrupt government.

  10. @RidhaSuhailSaliba

    April 2, 2025 at 9:56 am

    Working a 9-5 until retirement doesn’t have to be the only path. You can boost your financial future by investing in stocks and crypto. I personally generate passive income using Chanel’s expert trading strategy, which has allowed me to retire early and diversify into other income-generating assets. Let your money work for you, instead of relying on a traditional 9-5.

    • @AtkinLisa

      April 2, 2025 at 1:04 pm

      Hi, I’m a teacher from Canada. I work hard, but finances are still tight. How do you manage to earn so much?

    • @BrianBoyd-e9n

      April 2, 2025 at 1:56 pm

      Making touch with financial advisors like
      Chanel who can assist you restructure your portfolio, would be a very creative option. Personal financial management will be crucial to navigating the next difficult times.

    • @ChaunceyPham-o8f

      April 2, 2025 at 2:12 pm

      Mrs Chanellious is gradually getting the recognition she rightly deserves. She’s worked for it and this is only a testament of her good work for families

    • @ChaunceyPham-o8f

      April 2, 2025 at 2:14 pm

      Waking up every 10th of each month to 34,600+ dollars is a blessing to me and my family. Big gratitude to God for connecting me to her.

    • @LinaRavi-t4q

      April 2, 2025 at 2:16 pm

      For me, the very first time my friend and I tried, we invested $5000, and after a week, we received $12,800. That helped us a lot to pay our bills.

  11. @Ninja9JKD

    April 2, 2025 at 9:57 am

    Usual Ted talk: lots of verbal diarrhea

    • @JamesZeroSix

      April 2, 2025 at 2:18 pm

      lots of very-slowly-spoken* verbal diarrhea, with a sprinkle of poor analysis

  12. @Ninja9JKD

    April 2, 2025 at 9:58 am

    Maybe stop working as a wage slave so for a company that looks at you like just another number?

  13. @ichtube

    April 2, 2025 at 9:58 am

    Gen z gotta fire old men, most of them. We’re in crisis because we don’t know how yet.

  14. @risebounceshine

    April 2, 2025 at 10:05 am

    100 sucb complete👌💯 thank you all friends

  15. @powerralley

    April 2, 2025 at 10:46 am

    Work might be broken but it won’t be gen z to fix it. Ai will fix it long before gen. Z will

  16. @niccolom

    April 2, 2025 at 11:09 am

    Work is broken because Gen Z exists.

    • @hi.c.lol_4045

      April 3, 2025 at 6:54 am

      Nope. We found out it was broken thanks to Gen Z

    • @niccolom

      April 3, 2025 at 11:09 am

      @
      That only means Gen Z broke it.

  17. @AverageWhiteGuy101

    April 2, 2025 at 11:37 am

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  18. @michaelwatts1810

    April 2, 2025 at 11:56 am

    Work may or may not be broken but one issue is USA’s cost of living is such that a couple do not have the option of one partner staying home until the kids are in school. I am retired but we were/are of the opinion that we did not want our children’s values determined by a daycare worker.

  19. @RyanThomas-u1f

    April 2, 2025 at 12:12 pm

    If you are not in the financial market space right now, you are making a huge mistake. I understand that it could be due to ignorance, but if you want to make your money work for you…prevent prevent inflation…

  20. @albinalteborn

    April 2, 2025 at 12:40 pm

    Partly because mass layoffs, companies are going to try and replace workers as fast as they can with automation.

  21. @rajdivecha

    April 2, 2025 at 2:55 pm

    3:48 that’s why many ladies prefer to be stay at home mom, prioritizing kids or career. (And probably most guys don’t appreciate that sacrifice)

  22. @nO_d3N1AL

    April 2, 2025 at 3:57 pm

    As a late Millenial, I would say I’d rather change jobs every year than stay jn the same one for the rest of my career not because I enjoy job hopping, but because of the sad reality that many companies no longer respect or reward loyalty and hard work. I would absolutely love to work all my life in a place I’m happy and productive at with people that are pleasant to be around, but unfortunately modern corporations always put short-term interests above people and even a dream job can quickly turn sour due to circumstances beyond the employees’ control: changing markets, new C suite, acquisitions, IPO… there’s just so much instability and loyalty means nothing anymore.

  23. @tholfikarn

    April 2, 2025 at 6:25 pm

    Vue ja de??!!

  24. @ChristianMartt

    April 2, 2025 at 7:16 pm

    I wish I was never born. All jobs entail a different kind of misery and there’s no way to exist in this world without a source of income. You need money to exist because we’ve created a system where everything is behind a paywall. Prices are getting more prohibitive every year. I’m 27 and I can’t even dream of owning a humble home. I didn’t ask to be here in the first place. The things I love to do don’t make money, at least not enough to cover the cost of living, and they are projected to be erased by AI. I don’t want to turn myself into a corporate slave doing a meaningless job to be paid enough to get by and then die. I don’t know, I feel like I have no reasons to live anymore. I can’t visualise any future that I enjoy being in. And the reality is that no one really cares. I feel genuinely hopeless.

    • @dakamero

      April 2, 2025 at 9:41 pm

      Try to change your perspective, focus on what you want to achieve, and invest your energy in moving forward with it. Little by little, you’ll see yourself growing, gaining more confidence, and always looking at every step you’ve taken with great pride.😊

    • @MacDaddyWhite

      April 3, 2025 at 5:51 am

      I agree with you completely but even if it sucks at least I get to experience something other than nothing. Everyday is another chance to break out of corporate slavery and it is kind of fun to rebel

    • @oletramekaf5603

      April 3, 2025 at 4:20 pm

      You’re looking at it by a strange angle. There was never a time where people did not have to do some kind of work to survive. And the vast majority of time, the work was not pleasant. Do you think our ancestors like hunting and farming not to starve? And being afraid one bad crop would get half the family killed?
      You are young and you have options. No one exists in this world without putting a lot of effort. It’s simply the reality of any species.

    • @ChristianMartt

      April 3, 2025 at 4:44 pm

      @@dakamero what is worth achieving in your opinion? I fail to see worthwhile goals in this life. Material possessions are meaningless in the grand scheme of things, awards are manufactured items of prestige and status, fame is fleeting and toxic to the human psyche/experience, and we all die in the end. I don’t see the point in achieving anything. I’m genuinely curious how other people see life for what it is and find themselves wanting to continue the experience. I’m willing to change my mind I just can’t bring myself to do it.

    • @ChristianMartt

      April 3, 2025 at 4:49 pm

      @@MacDaddyWhite I don’t mean to sound disrespectful or condescending but I genuinely want to know… is that rebellion an illusion you have created in your mind to cope with the lack of control over life? Do you genuinely think you’re rebelling to the system? Or that that is effective somehow? How do you cope? What is that something you experience over nothing? Put me on (hopefully this doesn’t come off as rude, it’s not my intention)

  25. @ChristopherKemsley

    April 2, 2025 at 9:38 pm

    This says it was uploaded 14 hours ago, but I saw this a week or two ago. This seems to happen a lot, sometimes with videos that I saw years ago. Why do you keep re-uploading videos?

  26. @prakashkanji2478

    April 2, 2025 at 10:03 pm

    Couldn’t put my son into daycare “until he was seven months old…”
    Wow you really missed the point of children.

  27. @tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192

    April 3, 2025 at 2:40 am

    👩🏼‍🎓❤“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.”~Sigmund Freud

  28. @tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192

    April 3, 2025 at 2:42 am

    👩🏼‍🎓TED❤ “Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.

    • @tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192

      April 3, 2025 at 2:42 am

      Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.”
      — Sigmund Freud

  29. @tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192

    April 3, 2025 at 2:43 am

    👩🏼‍🎓TED❤ Thank you for understanding🙏🏼

    • @tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192

      April 3, 2025 at 2:44 am

      👩🏼‍🎓TED❤ Thank you for everything🙏🏼

  30. @welcome.421

    April 3, 2025 at 2:46 am

    Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom🌸

  31. @pXnTilde

    April 3, 2025 at 2:57 am

    Inideal doesn’t mean “broken” Typical millennial mentality

  32. @Humandriver5280

    April 3, 2025 at 12:15 pm

    Work from home feels a prison sentence. I did not survive a pandemic for another lockdown.

  33. @avinks7137

    April 3, 2025 at 4:17 pm

    For me what was discussed. About Gen Z is nothing but a fresh engineer thought process.

  34. @Myself-yf5do

    April 3, 2025 at 8:28 pm

    What Adam grant calls vuja de is actually called jamais vu.

  35. @szymon247

    April 4, 2025 at 4:35 am

    I’m very concerned that this is news to some!

  36. @Chris-kf3xd

    April 4, 2025 at 5:59 am

    My fathers advice to me was don’t hesitate to change jobs. He died at 93 in 2015. So what I did was change jobs every three years. I am a retired 70 year old female software developer. Some of us baby boomers realized companies will get rid of us without any thought. Look at what Musk is doing to the federal government. I increased my salary by at least 20 percent every time I changed jobs. Only way to get ahead. Not a new idea at all.

    • @funkymunky

      April 5, 2025 at 12:28 am

      Okay, boomer.

  37. @marc7home5

    April 4, 2025 at 9:47 am

    What no multi-language ?

  38. @TheMagicLemur

    April 4, 2025 at 3:33 pm

    That stat about lifelong jobs is mind-blowing. 🤯

    “To change is to improve; to change often is to be perfect” – Cardinal Newman

  39. @BonnieShadow33

    April 4, 2025 at 7:50 pm

    Thank you for the Platinum Rule! I’ve been saying for years that the problem with the Golden Rule is that not everybody wants to be treated the same way.

  40. @uwuberverse

    April 4, 2025 at 10:17 pm

    It’s interesting to see the Gen X looking at Gen Z version of this story (Gen Zer). I think your answers are useful, and we should definitely implement them.

    As a disabled person, I’m realizing that traditional jobs are physically near-impossible for me, and even my intended career path is likely to cause me health problems. I’m curious what happens if we combine the Gen Z anti-work and digital movements with a culture of accommodations. For me, being able to work online allows me to have the privacy I need to focus. Being able to work flexible hours allows me to be productive and happy without burning out as easily. I would love to see what it’s like to ask people to join and leave companies in more flexible ways, such that we don’t work for companies, but that companies work because we offered our services.

    I am also curious about what happens if we let robots handle economies of scale, and let our thinkers become more fully human and internally-varied. If technologies don’t help us find our humanity, they may as well have not existed.

    I know this reality would be hard to find, but I’m willing to take steps in this direction.

  41. @kaylah9643

    April 4, 2025 at 10:33 pm

    I wouldn’t fantasize this, change job on a yearly basis. Or corporate culture has become too toxic that survived it for a year long it’s already a success for an employee. Or an employee can’t put up with it anymore, running from one type of toxicity to the other?

  42. @je8z6x

    April 5, 2025 at 9:08 am

    Gen Z will fix it… AI will eradicate it 😂

  43. @BurnaBwoi

    April 5, 2025 at 4:21 pm

    Gen Z learned this from the Millennials when Gen X said we were crazy and disloyal for switching jobs every 2-5 years.

    • @timothy4664

      April 5, 2025 at 9:52 pm

      The notion that Gen X cares is hilarious. For our own families, sure, but in general? Yeah, that is not a thing. And while Gen X raised some Zoomers, that’s not entirely true. Many zoomers were raised by boomers and many alpha are raising alpha.

      We won’t care when Alpha screws up either. A lot of us kinda sympathize with some Millennnials because they are is light. I’d invite them to the party

  44. @timothy4664

    April 5, 2025 at 9:40 pm

    The title is so ridiculous, I’m not even going to entertain it

  45. @Adarshgautam-25

    April 6, 2025 at 11:04 am

    👌💯💯

  46. @EnrileQuirante

    April 7, 2025 at 9:24 am

    We don’t need a job anymore its just an old practice and past from generations. To let someone work what they wants is the perfect choice ❤. We need a risky but calculated to make future greater than before 🎉 Philippines 😢

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